[quote=PSGarak][quote=fishandchips]Has the Hooded Woman vanished, or am I just unlucky?
I only see the options for the Custodial Chef and the Melancholy Curate.
I traded my Strange Catch at Wrecker’s Cove for two items so far.
I want to go there again.[/quote]
According to the Wiki, the Chef & Curate show up with Airs 67-100, while the Hooded Lady only shows up with Airs 83-100. The Airs range is a strict subset, so she’ll only show up half the time the two gentlemen are around.
It seems the Airs values are not actually visible this year. Not sure if that’s different from previous years. It definitely makes it a little harder to tell what’s going on.[/quote]
Understood.
Is there also an event-specific story quest? I remember seeing something related to Jervaise(?) and Mr Wines.
Otherwise it’s just rent a boat, catch a ‘fish’, turn in your catch for something. Rinse and repeat.
Zeefarer was the one update to the Zailing mechanics, but also the general direction they’ll be turning their attention over the course of the next year. And they’ve said they’ll be revisiting mid-game content as well. I’m optimistic that we’ll see content passes over existing ports. Polythreme is the biggest thorn in everyone’s side, but I would like to see some passes at other early Zee content as well. Hunter’s Keep is actually really interesting, but it just takes so l o o o o n g with the Passing Time carousel; and I think Governorship could be really fun and exciting if it were deck-based instead of airs-based.
For what it’s worth, I agree about the Polythreme needing a rework, but not necessarily the others. Polythreme’s major problem is that you have shamefully little control over the outcome and are so easily hindered by RNG even if you invest a lot of resources into the carousel. Players (myself included) hate so overwhelmingly RNG-based content, which clearly shows e.g. in this very thread about this very Festival.
On the other hand, while I’d apprecieate new content for the Hunter’s Keep very much, the reason it’s no longer interesting for me is the very low action/reward ratio rather than the time aspect. And I respect that it’s not meant as an endgame content, so that’s that.
Governorship seems fine or even passable to me as it is, and I only stopped doing rounds there regularly once I accessed the much more profitable endgame content (Lab, railway etc.) Perhaps it could be made more competitive and thus engaging, but that would arguably move it from the "strictly middle-game area" into endgame territory, which may not be FBG’s intent.
I’d be far more invested in making an opposite change in the Laboratory, actually. Now THAT would benefit from switching from card-based to a different model. As it is, the long-term projects are almost unbearably tedious due to the need to discard card after card while waiting for the one and only one viable option on the given project. And I’m saying that as a Lab and Bone Market enthusiast, so I can only imagine how annoying that must be to most other players…
[quote=Sir Reginald Monteroy]Interesting. I assume the more expressive, yet still mute, wimple is a novel addition?[/quote] I submitted a bug report, after posting about it yesterday, but haven’t heard back yet.
[quote=PSGarak]
It seems the Airs values are not actually visible this year. Not sure if that’s different from previous years. It definitely makes it a little harder to tell what’s going on.[/quote]
However, on the wiki here Sights at the Festival - Fallen London Wiki we learn:
[table][tr][td]80 – 84[td]Youths in white dresses and white smocks dance through the streets, garlanding tourists with flowers.[tr][td]85 – 89[td]Drownies bob in the water, calling to tourists on the waterfront. They are not normally so bold.[tr][td]90 – 94[td]A straw-stuffed effigy stands on a roof. A robed thing; or are those wings? A hole has been cut through its middle. An unlit candle sits inside.[tr][td]95 – 99[td]A merry girl with bells on her ankles leads a line of dancers along the waterfront. Her hair is black as the zee. Her cheeks are red as roses.[tr][td]100[td]A discordance. Are two bands playing? No. One song comes from the island. The other - muted, but no less merry - from beneath the waves.[/table]
It’s very minor, but one thing I appreciate about the festival this year is that with the new zailing mechanics, it’s now faster to get there using my own ship than the ferry. That always felt like a more appropriate way for a zee-captain to arrive.
I sidestep (most of) the card issue by graduating any students and trimming the deck that way. It speeds things up and doesn’t seem to affect, e.g. levels obtained from the other lab worker of your choice. Haven’t tried getting rid of them, yet, but that might improve things further.
Since most of them are discardable with no action, that’s not been an issue for me. In fact, bringing it back to the FotZ, I just went back to land, and started some research. I used an uncanny incunabulum that I got at wreckers’ cove (grr), and graduated a student or two, made some boring statistics to sell. and reduced my menaces down to 5 each. I am an early-mid game player and have no interest in maximising echos/action, so this may not be for everyone.
Thanks to the Hooded Lady I now have enough ostentatious diamonds for my last bejewelled lens! Zub ahoy!! Also there are now some nuns trying to kill me all over London. I wonder if they will be on Mutton Island too?
Well, having been to Mutton Island three times this festival and not being able to turn in my catches for items I’ve given up on the whole festival. There’s no <censored> point to it if you can’t get any of the rewards!
I remember pumping ‘Running Battle’ to 10 during fishing and got the Submerged Reactor. The other three, ‘Running Battle’ was 6-8.
The Hooded Lady is a fickle one, once in a while she appears, and even if she does, she might not offer any of the unique items.
I will keep trying…
By the way, the Great Sinking aftermath event, the railway has been fully built now, no? A couple of days ago it was almost 700k when the card showed up for me when I went back to London.
Also, can anyone please tell me how should I pair up those couples for their chaperoned date? Melancholy Curate and Hooded Lady?
By the way, the Great Sinking aftermath event, the railway has been fully built now, no? A couple of days ago it was almost 700k when the card showed up for me when I went back to London.
Also, can anyone please tell me how should I pair up those couples for their chaperoned date? Melancholy Curate and Hooded Lady?[/quote]
No, 709215 currently. And no, don’t have a clue how to pair up, because (a) it’s tedious; (2) I’m convinced by all the reused text and identical rewards for different grinds lately that it doesn’t really matter; and (iii) I’ll never be able to figure it out with the information we have. So why worry? :)
I am now in agreement with the mechanics problem for the fishing and picking. It was fine when I had no items, but now it’s just so frustrating. It would be nice if you could call off fishing early so you could not spend 10 actions - take a lower level catch and go use it to reduce menaces. And the chances of good stuff are so low. Only jut over 20% even after you get to the cove?? (Based on Elderfleur’s helpful table I’ve been aiming for a catch of 7)
I do have a zub now, though, which has been a long term aim. I’m unofficially naming it the Jeanne Villepreux. (10 fate to be official? Clutches wallet in shock!) The Zailors, of course, call her Jeanie.
